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Twenty years ago, with
the publication of "The Spy
Who Came in from the
Cold," John Le Carre (David
Cornwell) became an ex-
traordinarily successful
writer of novels dealing
with master spies and their
ingenious and intriguing
performances. His current
novel, "The Little Drummer
Girl" (Knopf), is undoub-
tedly his best book, if only
because of his excellent
writing and absorbing nar-
rative. Its subject is the
fatal bombing of Israeli dip-
lomats in Europe and the
intensive effort of Israeli in-
telligence experts to track
down and kill the masterly
and elusive terrorist.
Marti Kurtz, the supreme
Israeli intelligence oper-
ator, is a man of broad
sophistication, keen mind,
and above all skilled in the
manipulation of human be-
havior. He is assigned to as-
semble a staff of associates
for the purpose of finding
and killing this master
Palestinian terrorist.
Fully aware of the profi-
ciency and dedication of his
quarry — his equal in in-
telligence and ingenuity —
he knows that no Jewish
decoy would succeed in lur-
ing him into a death trap.
He therefore began to look
for a gentile girl, attractive
physically, inclined to favor
the Israeli cause, who could
be indoctrinated to simulate
a love for the terrorist's
younger brother and
thereby lead the terrorist
into Israeli hands.
Gadi Becker, his chief
associate, goes to
England and soon comes
upon Charlie, a young,
mediocre English actress
who has radical inclina-
tions and the personal
qualities needed for the
assigned role. A subtly
complex personality with
much experience in in-
telligence work, Becker
observes her as an ac-
tress and follows her to a
Greek island, where she
and some of the troupe
went for a vacation.
There he makes her ac-
quaintance, encourages her
obvious interest in him and
entices her to take a tour of
ancient Greece. After a visit
to the Parthenon in the eve-
ning, he brought her to a
house in Athens, where
Kurtz was ready to question
her.
He had in the meantime
acquired in England de-
tailed information about
her background and activi-
ties. After letting her give
him a make-believe account
of herself, he gently let her
know how fully acquainted
he was with her real-life
story.
His fatherly attitude and
friendly approach im-
presses her favorably and
she soon talks to him
frankly about her interest
in the real-life role he has
outlined for her.
Le Carre's subtle de-
lineation of each of the
main characters gives
them an impressive
validity. Of special inter-
est is the way Becker ex-
cites Charlie's love for
him while maintaining
his sexual aloofness.
While Becker keeps his
promise to show Charlie the
ancient sights of Greece,
Kurtz and his group succeed
in capturing the terrorist's
younger brother, Michel, an
effete pleasure-seeking
youth, and get out of him as
much as he knows about his
brother.
An Israeli hand-writing
expert simulates love let-
ters between Michel and
Charlie. On reading them
Charlie, now with them,
soon comes to assume that
these letters are really a
combination between
Michel-Becker and herself.
When Michel and a girl
are deliberately killed in an
explosion of the car they
had stolen from the Israelis,
the Palestinians suspect
Charlie to have had a hand
in the murder and capture
her to be killed. But the let-
ters in her possession and
her assumed grief persuade
them that she was really in
love with Michel (whom she
has never seen) and take
her to Lebanon for indoctri-
nation.
She is soon taken back
to Europe to serve in the
delivery of a bomb to a
hall where an Israeli
scholar was to deliver a
lecture. This done, she is
taken to meet Khalil, the
master terrorist.
They spend a night to-
gether, but early the next
morning Khalil discovers in
her pocketbook a miniature
electronic radio-clock which
she uses to let Becker know
her whereabouts. There fol-
lows a race with death.
"The Little Drummer
Girl" makes absorbing
reading. Le Carre is not
only a master of plot and
suspense but an -artistic
analyst of human character.
Yet, regrettably, although
Le Carre is known to be a
friend of Israel, the effect of
the novel is unfavorable.
His description of the
Palestinian refugees,
crowded in squalid camps,
harassed and bombed by Is-
raeli planes, tends to arouse
the reader's sympathy. This
must be especially true of
non-Jewish readers who are
not familiar with the tragic
antagonism between Jews
and Arabs and of the persis-
tent efforts of the latter to
destroy Israel
Computer Age
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Hotel, Spring Glen, N.Y.
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